Lots of great comments from the ACS San Diego audience here; sounds like if there is a crisis, it's not a new one. That said, if indeed the MCAT drives a great deal of organic chemistry education (and I think that it does) and organic chemistry has been de-emphasized, it will be fascinating to see what organic chemistry education looks like in ten years.

'“The fact is organic chemistry textbooks have not changed in 50 years. It’s the same approach,” said Jerome Haky, an organic chemistry professor at Florida Atlantic University who was in the audience.'

Maybe organic textbooks haven't changed because organic chemistry, at least the fundamentals, haven't changed in 50 years? Fancy metal reagents are all fun and shouty, but really the last big breakthrough in organic chemistry was Barton's work on conformational analysis. Maybe MO stuff, maybe....even that Corey invented decades ago.